1st Edition
Historical Dialogue and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities
This book brings together a diverse range of international voices from academia, policymaking and civil society to address the failure to connect historical dialogue with atrocity prevention discourse and provide insight into how conflict histories and historical memory act as dynamic forces, actively facilitating or deterring current and future conflict.
Established on a variety of international case studies combining theoretical and practical points of view, the book envisions an integrated understanding of how historical dialogue can inform policy, education, and the practice of atrocity prevention. In doing so, it provides a vital basis for the development of preventive policies sensitive to the importance of conflict histories and for further academic study on the topic.
It will be of interest to all scholars and students of history, psychology, peace studies, international relations and political science.
Introduction
Chapter 1 – Historical Dialogue and Mass Atrocities
Elazar Barkan
Chapter 2 – Preventing Mass Atrocities: The Role of Conflict History in Risk, Response, and Resilience
James E. Waller
Part I - Historical Commissions
Chapter 3 – Historical commissions in Germany since the 1990s: Potential for social and political conflict solving
Christoph Cornelißen
Chapter 4 – Attempted Transitional Justice and Historical Dialogue: The Case of Israel's Or Commission
Sigall Horovitz
Chapter 5 – Historical Dialogue in Post-Conflict Kosovo
Anna De Lellio
Chapter 6 – The Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future" and the Ambivalence of Reconciliation and Conflict Prevention
Constantin Goschler
Part II - Education
Chapter 7 – Common history textbooks as a tool of preventing mass atrocities
Karina Korostelina
Chapter 8 – Dialogue in the Trenches: Confronting Political Narratives in Ugandan Secondary Schools
Ashley L. Greene
Part III - Museums
Chapter 9 – Is the Memory of War in Contemporary Europe Enhancing Historical Dialogue
Stefan Berger
Chapter 10 – Museums and Memorials as Sites of Dialogue: Historical Narratives, Mass Violence, and Atrocity Prevention
Alexander Karn
Chapter 11 – Exhibiting War to Understand Peace - how do military museums adjust to the need to foster international understanding and peaceful conflict resolution?
Falk Pingel
Part IV - Art and Visual Interventions
Chapter 12 – Witnessing the Past and the Present: Photography and Guatemala’s Fight for Historical Dialogue
Kaitlin Murphy
Chapter 13 – "Daisy in the Dirt": Visualizing Women's Historical Injustices of War and Violence
Olivera Simic
Chapter 14 – Memory Encroachments and Re-Plotting the Past: Cartographies of Violence and Memory in Post-Atrocity Argentina, Germany, and the United States
Kerry Whigham
Biography
Elazar Barkan is Professor of International and Public Affairs, the Director of the Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy Concentration and of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University, USA.
Constantin Goschler is Professor of Modern History at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.
James E. Waller is Cohen Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Chair of that same department, at Keene State College, New Hampshire, USA.
